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' (N0 R G CLAYTON, Deod A. K. RUSSELL, Administrator. ROCKING CHAIR No. 335,428. Patented Feb. 2, 1886.

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ROBERT GREENBURY CLAYTON, OF NEAR CHICAGO, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO R. G. HILL, OF LEBANON, KENTUCKY, A. K. RUSSELL ADMINISTRATOR OF SAID CLAYTON, DECEASED.

ROCKlNG-CHAIR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 335,428, dated February 18 6- Application filed February 18, 1884. Serial No. 133,250. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern: of the seat. The rear portion of the rockers Be it known that 1, ROBERT G. CLAYTON, a B B is securely attached to the rear portion citizenof the United States, residing near Chiof the outer seat-frame by means of strong cago, in the county of Marion and State of braces or supports J J, which in turn are at- Kentucky, have invented a new and useful tached to each other by a round, K, as shown Rocking-Chair, of which the following is a in Fig. 1.

specification. Arms L L are provided, and are attached at My invention relates to rocking-chairs; and their rear end to the back frame, G, at or near it consists in the novel construction, adaptatheir center to the runner A A, and at their [0 tion, and application to each other of a pair forward end, through the medium of uprights of bent runners extending from the rockers H, to the front portion of the outer seatframe. 6o upwardly and backwardly, and the seat, back, It will be observed that the various parts rockers, upper rounds, foot-rounds, and the described herein are all interdependent, interseveral sets of braces, as will be hereinafter bracing and interlocking, the seat being me more fully set forth. diately or immediately (through the instru- In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective mentality of brace-rods) connected in a rigid view of my improved chair; and Fig. 2 is a manner to all its surrounding parts, consistside elevation of that portion of the chair ing of runners, rockers, back, and arms; the technically termed the runner. runners in the same manner to the seat, rock- 20 To the runners A A, which extend from ers, back, and arms; therockers to the runners,

rockers B B to top rounds, C C, is securely seat, back, and arms; the back to the seat, attached, by small wooden pins or equivalent runners, rockers, and arms, and the arms to device, the outer seat-frame, D. To the inner the back, seat, runners, and rockers. edges of this outer seat-frame is rigidly at- The pieces from which my improved chair 25 tached, in any well-known manner, an inner is constructed (with the exception of the flat frame, E, constructed of flat pieces of wood, inside seat-frame and rockers) are preferably from the inner edges of which is stretched the made of turned sugar-tree wood, the ends seat proper, F, constructed of cane, canvas, thereof being tightly interlocked in their relisting, or other strong but pliable material. spective sockets by reason of their interbrac- 0 The runners A A, provided near their uping character in such a manner as to prevent per end with a bend, as at a, (by means of all squeaking, and obviate the necessity which the top portion of the chair-back is for gluing the parts together. projected in a forward direction,) extend from Having thus fully described my invention, the forward end of the rockers upwardly and what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 35 backwardly at such an angle in respect to the Letters Patent, is-

plane occupied by the seat as to provide the Inarocking-chair,the runners provided near easiest and most comfortable angle to the their upper end with a bend and extending back frame, G, which is securely attached at from the rockers upwardly and backwardly, its lower end to the rear cross-piece of the as described, in combination with the seat, the

40 outer seat-frame, D, and at its upper end to back, the rockers, the upper rounds, the footthe cross-round C. Slats g g, or surface conrounds, and the braces I and J, as and for the 0 structed of material similar to that used in purposes specified. the construction of the chair-seat, complete the formation of the chair-back.

5 The lower ends of the runners are connected together by means of a foot-round, H. This foot-round, connected to the front eross-piece Attest: of the outer seat-frame by vertical brace-rods OLEM S. HILL, J r., I I, formsastrong support for the frontportion J. L. SPALDING.

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